Table of Contents
Labs
Labs
Special software is required to use some of the files in this section: mov.
General Information about the MIT Ocean Engineering Teaching Laboratory (OETL) (PDF)
Part 1
In Labs 1-6, students construct and test a SeaPerch II Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV).
- SeaPerch: The Sea Grant SeaPerch site contains general information on how to build the smaller unit with links to other helpful information.
- SeaPerch II: SeaPerch II is a slightly more advanced design than the SeaPerch I. This is the one we will be designing in class; its instructions are modifications to the SeaPerch I.
Testing at the MIT Boat House (Charles River)
Preparing a laptop to talk to the SuperSeaPerch.
Checking the tethered power connector.
Connecting monitors to the ROV cameras.
Moving the ROV to the water's edge.
Back to class after a successful test dive.
Loading up to return to the laboratory.Part 2
Labs 7-14 are devoted to the final project, in which students design and build an ROV outfitted with the necessary instrumentation to map and investigate a simulated hydrothermal vent field in a pool. This project will give students a chance to collect data about the field from the sensors they build themselves. After the pool trials, students will venture to WHOI to "field test" our ROV.
Description of Final Project (PDF)
Final Project Test, near Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Video of Final Project Test (MOV - 34.4MB)
Preparing the ROV to dive.
Students survey the launch.
Checking the depthfinder.
Preparing for data collection.
Moving the ROV to the water.
Lowering the ROV to launch.
Configuring the ROV brain.
The SuperSeaPerch in action.
Monitors show what's below the surface.
The SuperSeaPerch in action.
Patching a leak.
The ROV descends.
The SuperSeaPerch in action.
Moving the robot underwater.
Rest break.
Explaining how the motors work?
A good joke.
Reconfigurations.
Hunting for starfish.
A special guest.
Lunch break.
A crab collected by the ROV.
Controlling the ROV.
The chase is on!
Basking in success.
Professor Techet at the controls.
The 2.011 class.